adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours. rare
2. 2
   A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
3. 3
   A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

Adjective

1. 1
   Pertaining to an hour or hours. not-comparable
2. 2
   Occurring every hour; hourly. not-comparable
3. 3
   Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived. not-comparable, obsolete

   "horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer"

4. 4
   Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked. not-comparable

   "But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question."

Adjective

1. 1
   relating to the hours wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

hourly

Example

More examples

"horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer"

Etymology

From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).

Related phrases

horary astrologycanonical hoursshort lived

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